The Night of Seven Skies

This article is about the myth of the birth of Calador Nythris, the legendary paladin that ended the Riftfall Cataclysm by sealing the Kael Rift through which Nyxorian forces tried to invade.

The Birth of a Paladin

Fireside tales and ancient Iryndali scrolls speak of the night that Calador Nythris was born to farmer and her husband, who often led the greywild hunt before a tragic accident left him paralyzed.

It is said that when Calador first drew breath in this world, the sky fractured into seven layers of light – a phenomenon unseen before or since. Each layer shimmered in the color of a different plane. Sapphire for the Material, gold for the Celestial, emerald for Faerie, deep crimson for Shade, silver for the Astral Sea, iridescent for strange Nyxora, and violet for the forgotten realms.

That night an unnatural stillness fell on the land. Birds waited in silence, arcane wards sparked on their own and the wind stilled as if in reverence as Elenara Nythris labored through the night.

An old healer attending the birth claimed she saw runes dancing in the air above Calador’s cradle, glowing faintly in every language of every realm.

Interpretations

There are religious orders who say that the realms themselves blessed Calador’s soul before birth, a mortal chosen by higher powers but not created by them. Academics debate the phenomenon as a rare planar convergence that just had not happened before in recorded history. Those wave it off as a mere coincidence, while others take this as a sign that Calador was indeed special and destined for glory.

Common folk just say that “Calador was born to stitch the world together,” and that’s enough.

A swordmaster in Pelveron uses the proverb “Strike like the Seventh Sky, without sound, without warning, and with truth in your hand” to remind his students of the art of war, and the responsibility they carry whenever they pick up a weapon to wield.

There is a constellation of seven stars named after this myth called “Seventh Cradle” which sailors use to guide their path across the seas. It is more commonly seen on the southern hemisphere.